Al Menconi, a Southern California-based family advocate who lectures on the influence of media, believes there is significant relationship between violent gaming and aggressive behavior.

Menconi

“When did you ever think that the most popular game is killing people?” he asks. “You can’t point at video gaming and say video gaming made my child pull that trigger — no, you can’t … and I’m not saying that.

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“But I can say this, and research has backed me up: it has desensitized a whole generation of young people.”

Menconi points to research that reveals a direct physiological occurrence during a first-person shooter game and the gamer.